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ArticlePLoS biology2026

Measures to strengthen international biosafety and biosecurity practices.

Etienne Decroly, Patrick Berche, Ali Asy, Maggie L Bartlett, Åsa Szekely Björndal, Christian Brechot, Patrick G Casey, Patrick Couvreur, Maria J Espona, Claudia Filippone and 10 more

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Article in PLoS biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Etienne DecrolyArchitecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (AFMB), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-024X
Patrick BercheDepartment of Microbiology, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8941-1564
Ali AsyAnimal Health Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt.
Maggie L BartlettJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Åsa Szekely BjörndalDepartment of Microbiology, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
Christian BrechotGlobal Virus Network, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America.
Patrick G CaseyOffice of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0052-2083
Patrick CouvreurInstitut Galien Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7961-5443
Maria J EsponaArgIQ, Argentina Information Quality, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Claudia FilipponeEuropean Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents, ERINHA AISBL, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5483-7656
Diah IskandriatiPrimate Research Center, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8495-7197
Wilmot JamesPandemic Center, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
Rafael Elias MarquesBrazilian Biosciences National Laboratory - LNBio, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Zabta Khan ShinwariFaculty of Biological Sciences, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Bernadett PályiNational Biosafety Laboratory, National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy, Budapest, Hungary.
Dana PerkinsIndependent Biosecurity Consultant, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Kathrin SummermatterInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Olivier VandenbergCenter for Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Kurt ZatloukalDiagnostic and Research Institute of Pathology, Diagnostic & Research Center of Molecular Biomedicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Jonathan EwbankEuropean Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents, ERINHA AISBL, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1257-6862

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

No matter where they are performed, studies with infectious agents need ironclad biorisk management. This can be promoted through robust gatekeeping of funding and publication, using a new formal reporting standard for pathogen research.

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PMCPMC12998872

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